Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Dánielisz László
hi kalin, my question is: are you telnet-ing to/from/through this machine with the specified pf rules? From: kalin m ka...@el.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 8:12:00 AM Subject: pf rules hi all... doing testing with pf...

Re: GELI file systems unusable after glabel label operations

2010-01-22 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:31:22 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:38:14AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: 2) Create the geli device /dev/daXsYP.eli, and then create a label on th= at, yielding /dev/label/bar. [not sure what the utility of this is, since= the

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Erik Norgaard
kalin m wrote: tcp_in = { www, https } ftp_in = { ftp } udp = { domain, ntp } ping = echoreq set skip on lo scrub in antispoof for eth0 inet block in all pass out all keep state pass proto udp to any port $udp pass inet proto icmp all icmp-type $ping keep state pass in inet proto tcp to any

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Rees
2010/1/22 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:19:29PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:07:00 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:     I have looked for this library to rebuild it; can't find.  Anybody know     what's going on? Port:   nspr-4.6.7

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Erik Norgaard wrote: kalin m wrote: tcp_in = { www, https } ftp_in = { ftp } udp = { domain, ntp } ping = echoreq set skip on lo scrub in antispoof for eth0 inet block in all pass out all keep state pass proto udp to any port $udp pass inet proto icmp all icmp-type $ping keep state pass in

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 January 2010, at 01:45, Erik Norgaard wrote: To debug pf rules: - always add direction to the rule, pass or block, add interface to all rules except default policy, keep state on all pass rules - group your rules per direction, then per interface - add log to all rules and watch

Re: pidgin 2.6.5 login QQ failed

2010-01-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0800, wsk wrote: hi, upgrade all software after upgrade to 8.0. and now found that pidgin login qq failed. any ideas? If you're talking about AIM or ICQ, it seems that AOL has changed the way servers handle logins so that the previous

Re: SOLVED: WAS: wireless ath - unable to get scan results

2010-01-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: In a firewall (ipfilter in my case) do I also use wlan0 as an interface, and not ath0? Yes. Same goes for pf -- when matching an interface, it should be one of the list returned by 'ifconfig -l'. You can say, for example 'em' as an interface name on OpenBSD to

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Erik Norgaard
Doug Hardie wrote: On 22 January 2010, at 01:45, Erik Norgaard wrote: To debug pf rules: - always add direction to the rule, pass or block, add interface to all rules except default policy, keep state on all pass rules - group your rules per direction, then per interface - add log to all

Re: Invalid partition table after installation

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the modern BIOS geometry and the 255 head geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5 Gb. I've tried

Re: Re: xdm and xdmcp

2010-01-22 Thread rhino64
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:30:47PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 21/01/2010 8:54 μ.μ., rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: modifying Xaccess, starting xdm with parameter udpPort 177. The command netstat -a never indicates that a process is listening on that port. The notes in Xaccess

Re: How to activate French locale ?

2010-01-22 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 01/21/10 17:40, Frank Wißmann wrote: Frank Bonnet schrieb: Hello The question is in the subject :-) Thanks a lot ___ Hi! You may want to set setenv LANG fr_FR.ISO8859-15 in your .cshrc. Greetings Frank Hello Thanks for the answer , but I

Re: Invalid partition table after installation

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the modern BIOS geometry and the 255 head geometry. I've ensured that the

Re: How to activate French locale ?

2010-01-22 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 01/22/10 14:10, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 01/21/10 17:40, Frank Wißmann wrote: Frank Bonnet schrieb: Hello The question is in the subject :-) Thanks a lot ___ Hi! You may want to set setenv LANG fr_FR.ISO8859-15 in your .cshrc. Greetings Frank

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 1/22/10, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: hi all... doing testing with pf... how is it possible that if i have these rules below in pf.conf if i do: telnet that.host.org 25 i get: Trying xx.xx.xx.xx... Connected to that.host.org. Escape character is '^]'. ... etc ...

Re: Invalid partition table after installation

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the modern

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Cristiano Deana
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:12 AM, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: how is it possible that if i have these rules below in pf.conf if i do: telnet that.host.org 25 i get: Trying xx.xx.xx.xx... Connected to that.host.org. Escape character is '^]'. you probably don't load pf. pfctl -sa | grep

Where is portsnap ?

2010-01-22 Thread Bernard de Joly
Hello, I use freebsd for several years and I appreciate portsnap but it doesn't seem to be on the current port tree anymore … Can you tell me what is happening with him? Anyway thank you for your so useful work. Best regards, Bernard de Joly Lasserre d'Amour 32250 Montréal du Gers

Re: Where is portsnap ?

2010-01-22 Thread mikel king
On Jan 22, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Bernard de Joly wrote: Hello, I use freebsd for several years and I appreciate portsnap but it doesn't seem to be on the current port tree anymore … Can you tell me what is happening with him? Anyway thank you for your so useful work. Best regards, Bernard

make delete-old make delete-old-libs

2010-01-22 Thread mikel king
I had a system that was royally borked after upgrading and completing these steps a few years ago. Ever since I have always skipped these steps. Has anyone else experienced any issues with these two steps? Cheers, Mikel ___

Re: Invalid partition table after installation

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the modern

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM

Securing cgi scripts

2010-01-22 Thread DAve
Good morning all, I have been working on an issue here where I am being asked if we can support letting clients install and run their own CGI scripts on a shared vhost. I have tried sbox and cgiwrap, both which worked, but they cannot stop the one test of reading the /etc/passwd file. Forgive my

polkit-0.95_3: update fails

2010-01-22 Thread O. Hartmann
I try to update ports via 'portmaster -av' on a regular basis and ran into a sticky problem with poolkit and docbook I'm incapable to solve. Error message follows. Does anybody has any hint or tip? Please email me in CC. Regards, Oliver === Starting build for for ports that need updating ===

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I don't know why you shout. (?) Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT

Re: make delete-old make delete-old-libs

2010-01-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
mikel king wrote: I had a system that was royally borked after upgrading and completing these steps a few years ago. Ever since I have always skipped these steps. Has anyone else experienced any issues with these two steps? make delete-old-libs can cause you much wailing and gnashing of teeth

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:09:50AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:

Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-22 Thread John
Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to figure out how I'm going to migrate everything - users, data, MySQL, NAT, firewall, apache, DHCP, gateway services BIND, Sendmail, etc., etc from FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 22 19:44:16 CST 2004 to FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov

Re: Securing cgi scripts

2010-01-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
DAve wrote: Good morning all, I have been working on an issue here where I am being asked if we can support letting clients install and run their own CGI scripts on a shared vhost. I have tried sbox and cgiwrap, both which worked, but they cannot stop the one test of reading the /etc/passwd

Re: pidgin 2.6.5 login QQ failed

2010-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:49:16AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0800, wsk wrote: hi, upgrade all software after upgrade to 8.0. and now found that pidgin login qq failed. any ideas? If you're talking about AIM or ICQ, it seems that

posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello I am curious about posting some coding bounties, my current interest revolves around improving the ZVOL functionality in FreeBSD: fixing the known ZVOL SWAP reliability/stability problems as well as making ZVOLs work as a dumpon device (as is already the case in OpenSolaris) for crash

Re: Securing cgi scripts

2010-01-22 Thread DAve
Matthew Seaman wrote: DAve wrote: Good morning all, I have been working on an issue here where I am being asked if we can support letting clients install and run their own CGI scripts on a shared vhost. I have tried sbox and cgiwrap, both which worked, but they cannot stop the one test of

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from within Windows XP. I will

How to troubleshoot a frozen boot sequence

2010-01-22 Thread Billy Newsom
I am doing a test run on a production server. It has 2 hard drives. ad0 (mounted on /disk250 in a single slice plus SWAP) twed0 (mounted on / /var /usr and a SWAP) The twed0 is a hardware mirror and my main drive. ad0 is just for backups. What the issue is, and you probably know where I'm

Re: Securing cgi scripts

2010-01-22 Thread Nathan Vidican
Check out suExec, (assuming you're using Apache)... Please see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#user and/or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/suexec.html You can make an entire VirtualHost directive run as a different user/group. -- Nathan Vidican nat...@vidican.com On Fri,

Re: How to troubleshoot a frozen boot sequence

2010-01-22 Thread Nathan Vidican
To me, it sounds like you have two issues to deal with here: #1 - booting off of the twed0 disk, what is your systems' BIOS currently set to boot from, from the way you describe it's almost as if the system is booting from ad0 - in which case yes, you will have to put a valid boot config onto

Re: Securing cgi scripts

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Woods
Nathan Vidican wrote: Check out suExec, (assuming you're using Apache)... Please see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#user and/or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/suexec.html You can make an entire VirtualHost directive run as a different user/group. A more up to date

Drive errors in raidz array

2010-01-22 Thread Toby Burress
I have a system with 24 drives in raidz2. When testing with bonnie++ it seemed to work fine (although I had to raise the arc_max to prevent kernel panics). However, now we're copying data to it and dmesg is showing many errors like: mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16 mpt0: request

Re: How to troubleshoot a frozen boot sequence

2010-01-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:53:31AM -0600, Billy Newsom wrote: I am doing a test run on a production server. It has 2 hard drives. ad0 (mounted on /disk250 in a single slice plus SWAP) twed0 (mounted on / /var /usr and a SWAP) The twed0 is a hardware mirror and my main drive. ad0 is just

ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Peiffer
I'm looking for a simple program I can use to forward incoming TCP connections to several other addr:port pairs. (including one on the machine itself.) Holding the connections open and passing the data back and forth until both parties close their ends. I need a solution that doesn't

Re: ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool

2010-01-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Chris Peiffer bsdli...@cabstand.comwrote: I'm looking for a simple program I can use to forward incoming TCP connections to several other addr:port pairs. (including one on the machine itself.) Holding the connections open and passing the data back and forth

Re: ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool

2010-01-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Chris Peiffer wrote: Or is there a good way to do it in the kernel that I'm missing, and can someone direct me to an ipnat ruleset that creates new connections, so the TCP forwarding machine doesn't also need to be a router? I don't know about ipnat, but

Re: ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool

2010-01-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: A few lines in python should do what you're looking for, see socket lib, twisted if you have high performance needs. I'm a big fan of python, but you'd have to be careful to choose the right processing model-- some sort of

Re: portupgrade fail qt4-rcc-4.6.1

2010-01-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 21 January 2010 10:34:59 pm n dhert wrote: Today there were about 7 portupgrades to qt4 packages. Upgrading 'qt4-rcc-4.5.3' to 'qt4-rcc-4.6.1' (devel/qt4-rcc) failed: ... c++ -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O2 -fPIC -Wall -W -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQT_ LITE_UNICODE

RE: Drive errors in raidz array

2010-01-22 Thread Dan Naumov
I have a system with 24 drives in raidz2. Congrats, you answered your own question within the first sentance :) ANSWER: As per the ZFS documentation, don't do raidz/raidz2 vdev groups bigger than 9 vdevs per group or bad things (tm) will happen. Google will tell you more. - Sincerely, Dan

Periodic maintenaince

2010-01-22 Thread fpineda
Hi! I like to know how can I optimize the execution about periodic daily. I know periodic execute is a set of scripts, but I have some problems with a sepecific script: 450.status-security. When this script is running by periodic_daily on cron, take some time to end and many times cause network

sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-22 Thread Martin McCormick
If one logs in to a FreeBSD system from a Linux platform, the terminal type is set to linux which is compatible with a vt100. As soon as I run sysinstall, things go to the dogs very fast. It is as if there was no terminal emulation in effect at all. Other things such as the shell and vi

Upgrade from i386-8.0 to amd64-8.0 possible?

2010-01-22 Thread LoH
I've got a system currently running FreeBSD-i386-8.0, and was wondering whether or not it's possible to move the system to FreeBSD-amd64-8.0 without bringing it down for more than a reboot or two (and avoid reinstalling all of the client software on the box itself). The box itself will be

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:10:15 -0600, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: If one logs in to a FreeBSD system from a Linux platform, the terminal type is set to linux which is compatible with a vt100. What about using $TERM = xterm or cons25 (or cons25l1)? -- Polytropon

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 January 2010, at 03:14, Erik Norgaard wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 22 January 2010, at 01:45, Erik Norgaard wrote: To debug pf rules: - always add direction to the rule, pass or block, add interface to all rules except default policy, keep state on all pass rules - group your rules

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:01:02AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:09:50AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote:

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 January 2010, at 09:12, John wrote: Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to figure out how I'm going to migrate everything - users, data, MySQL, NAT, firewall, apache, DHCP, gateway services BIND, Sendmail, etc., etc from FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 22

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:33:09 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: surprised how many things depend on that nspr... wow. It seems to be because many other things depend on Netscape (or the corresponding HTML renderer or who knows what); from the port's description: Netscape

Re: ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool

2010-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris Peiffer wrote: I'm looking for a simple program I can use to forward incoming TCP connections to several other addr:port pairs. (including one on the machine itself.) Holding the connections open and passing the data back and forth until both parties close their ends. I need a

FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

2010-01-22 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm in the process of purchasing a small Nehelem-based server (Xeon L5506 CPU to be exact). I will be installing some flavor of FreeBSD 8.0 (either i386 32 bit or amd64 64 bit, to be exact). I have no immediate need for a 64 bit server, as none of the processes that I will be running in the

Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Dan Naumov wrote: Hello I am curious about posting some coding bounties, my current interest revolves around improving the ZVOL functionality in FreeBSD: fixing the known ZVOL SWAP reliability/stability problems as well as making ZVOLs work as a dumpon device (as is already the case in

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 January 2010, at 03:14, Erik Norgaard wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 22 January 2010, at 01:45, Erik Norgaard wrote: To debug pf rules: - always add direction to the rule, pass or block, add interface to all rules except default policy, keep state on all pass rules - group your rules

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-22 Thread Dale Scott
If one logs in to a FreeBSD system from a Linux platform, the terminal type is set to linux which is compatible with a vt100. As soon as I run sysinstall, things go to the dogs very fast. It is as if there was no terminal emulation in effect I don't have a solution but can report I

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-22 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/5/2010 1:30 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: snip The message I'm getting (wish I could just screen cap and put it up on the web): FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu, Sat Nov 21 14:05:36 UTC 2009) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

Re: Where is portsnap ?

2010-01-22 Thread Jason
Portsnap is part of the base, now. Well, I am running 7.2 /usr/sbin/portsnap On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:39:52PM +0100, Bernard de Joly thus spake: Hello, I use freebsd for several years and I appreciate portsnap but it doesn't seem to be on the current port tree anymore ? Can you tell me

Re: Periodic maintenaince

2010-01-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:04:21PM -0800, fpineda wrote: Hi! I like to know how can I optimize the execution about periodic daily. I know periodic execute is a set of scripts, but I have some problems with a sepecific script: 450.status-security. When this script is running by

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

2010-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Nerius Landys wrote: I'm in the process of purchasing a small Nehelem-based server (Xeon L5506 CPU to be exact). I will be installing some flavor of FreeBSD 8.0 (either i386 32 bit or amd64 64 bit, to be exact). I have no immediate need for a 64 bit server, as none of the processes that I will

Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Matt Olander
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: Hello I am curious about posting some coding bounties, my current interest revolves around improving the ZVOL functionality in FreeBSD: fixing the known ZVOL SWAP reliability/stability problems as well

Re: Upgrade from i386-8.0 to amd64-8.0 possible?

2010-01-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:16:53PM -0600, LoH wrote: I've got a system currently running FreeBSD-i386-8.0, and was wondering whether or not it's possible to move the system to FreeBSD-amd64-8.0 without bringing it down for more than a reboot or two It is possible, but not recommended. First

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

2010-01-22 Thread Nerius Landys
There probably are some. If you are only interested in FreeBSD ports, you can make a list of which ports you need and then inspect their Makefiles to see if there's a flag disabling them on the amd64 architecture. OK thanks. Could you give me an example of a port that is disabled on 64 bit

Re: Upgrade from i386-8.0 to amd64-8.0 possible?

2010-01-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:16:53 -0600 LoH lordofhyph...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a system currently running FreeBSD-i386-8.0, and was wondering whether or not it's possible to move the system to FreeBSD-amd64-8.0 without bringing it down for more than a reboot or two (and avoid reinstalling all

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-22 Thread Elliot Finley
In recent testing with 8-Stable, we couldn't get our Intel cards to push more than 450Mbps. We put some Broadcom cards in and we can get 980Mbps. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become rather

Re: GELI file systems unusable after glabel label operations

2010-01-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:08:00AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: Why is that stored in the last sector of the device, rather than in the key file? What is the purpose of the key file if not to hold that type of information? All geom(4) providers use their last sector to store metadata;

Re: Periodic maintenaince

2010-01-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:54:33 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: What you could do is prepend the find(1) commands with the nice(1) command, to give the find commands lower priority. E.g. 'find -bla' then becomes '/usr/bin/nice -n 19 find -bla'. Unless there's something under

Re: GELI file systems unusable after glabel label operations

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 1/14/10, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: I used glabel label to label each of the file systems I have on external disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to geli attach any of the GELI-encrypted file systems. The system is FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE. Is there a way

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:35:21PM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:01:02AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:09:50AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan

Re: GELI file systems unusable after glabel label operations

2010-01-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:34:31 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:08:00AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: Why is that stored in the last sector of the device, rather than in the key file? What is the purpose of the key file if not to hold that type of

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to figure out how I'm going to migrate everything - users, data, MySQL, NAT, firewall, apache, DHCP, gateway services BIND, Sendmail, etc., etc from FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 22

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Judd
SNIP OK - my current best theory is that if the Standard boot manager is faced with anything other than exactly 1 bootable slice (partition to it), it defaults to Invalid partition table. I'll bet anyone lunch that this is true. Any takers? I've read before: the standard bootloader

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:35:21PM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:01:02AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:09:50AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri,

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:05:39AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:33:09 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: surprised how many things depend on that nspr... wow. It seems to be because many other things depend on Netscape (or the corresponding HTML renderer or

libpthread.so.0 not found ...

2010-01-22 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi I'm using 8.0-p2 with the linux f10 flashplugin used with firefox 35. I did a fresh install a few days ago. So far, ive not noticed any problems when viewing flash sites, the only thing Im unsure about is the following error message i get in my ~/.xsession-errors file (or on the console

Re: make delete-old make delete-old-libs

2010-01-22 Thread b. f.
Matthew Seaman wrote: mikel king wrote: I had a system that was royally borked after upgrading and completing these steps a few years ago. Ever since I have always skipped these steps. Has anyone else experienced any issues with these two steps? What do you mean by borked? If you mean that

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Polytropon writes: What about using $TERM = xterm or cons25 (or cons25l1)? Thank you! I tried cons25 first and it worked very well. Since I am still actually receiving via the linux terminal definition, I was surprised it worked as well as it does. The cons25 must use many of the same

Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-22 Thread insecurity
Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! help me please ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 1 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:59:00 +0100 Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
insecur...@malandrines.net wrote: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! help me please $ grep ad /var/run/dmesg.boot Is /dev/ad0 there? /dev/ad0s1b ? Do you have SCSI disks instead? A RAID? Kevin Kinsey ___

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-22 Thread Programmer In Training
The issue was in my BIOS, of all places. I was going to see if I could do install from a Gentoo LiveCD from April 2k8, and it kept on hanging near the beginning and lighting up all the lights on my keyboard (caps, num and scroll lock). So I went into the BIOS, loaded optimized defaults, changed a

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: [..] OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. I switched to BootMgr, and it came right up with 8.0! Slight downside - extra prompt during boot, and of

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:34:10PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: [..] OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. I switched to BootMgr, and it came right up with

Re: How to troubleshoot a frozen boot sequence

2010-01-22 Thread Billy Newsom
Nathan Vidican wrote: To me, it sounds like you have two issues to deal with here: #1 - booting off of the twed0 disk, what is your systems' BIOS currently set to boot from, from the way you describe it's almost as if the system is booting from ad0 - in which case yes, you will have to put a